Iridopterygidae

Iridopterygidae was a family of praying mantids in the order Mantodea whose members, having formerly been moved here as a subfamily within Mantidae,^[1] have now been transferred elsewhere as part of the recent (2019) major revision of mantid taxonomy.^[2]

Iridopterygidae
Hapalopeza nilgirica, Kadavoor
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Mantodea
Family:	Iridopterygidae Giglio-Tos, 1919

Former subfamilies

• Hapalomantinae: moved to new family Nanomantidae
• Iridopteryginae: now consists of two tribes in the Gonypetidae^[3]
• Nanomantinae: now in new family Nanomantidae contained:
  • Tribe Fulcinini
  • Tribe Nanomantini
• Nilomantinae: now a tribe of Hapalomantinae
• Tropidomantinae: previously containing a single tribe, the Tropidomantini^[4]
• genera previously placed incertae sedis here are now the Tropidomantinae.

See also

• List of mantis genera and species